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Eleanor MacElwee Tuttle; actress, writer, teacher Eleanor MacElwee Tuttle, a creative soul who was raised in Babylon, died March 27, 2007 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She was 87 years old. Born May 5, 1919 in Brooklyn to Tom and Ruth (Smith) MacElwee, she lived in Babylon and graduated from its high school in 1936. She lived in Babylon and West Islip for many years before moving to Stony Brook in the 1960s. She relocated to Massachusetts and lived there for more than 40 years. In the late '30s she acted in a group that performed at the Blue Harbor Theatre, the old carriage house on the Howell estate. She worked as the Assistant Food Editor for the New York Times and served in the American Red Cross in the South Pacific including Guam and the Guaddal Canal during World War II. After the war, she worked for Time, Inc. in Boston. During the '60s and '70s she worked as a teacher and tutor in the Weston, Massachusetts school system.
Mrs. Tuttle leaves behind her children: Jonathan Tuttle of England, Meg Tuttle of Anchorage, Alaska, and Mary Elizabeth Albertelli of Wellesley, Massachusetts; her grandchildren: Lucy, James and Georgia from England and Laura and Emily Albertelli from Wellesley, Massachusetts; her brothers: Jack MacElwee of Essex, Connecticut and Tom MacElwee of Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was predeceased by her husband of 54 years, Lansing Tuttle and her sister, Jean MacElwee Brown.
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